From the NYT — David Law and Mila Versteeg are about to publish (in June) a new study describing to what extent countries model their constitutions on theU.S.s one. Not so much, they have leaked early. In the 1960s and 70s, democratic countries increasingly modeled the U.S. a trend that started downward in the 80s and 90s and then collapsed at tyhe turn of the century.

On average, by the way, countries change their constitutions avery 19 years or so. Ours is OLD, and very hard to change. I for one, would like to see a new constitutional convention, if it could be arranged that politicians were not in charge.